About IdeaMensch

IdeaMensch is a crowdsourced interview platform for entrepreneurs, makers, and doers. Our goal is to make it easy for people to get some publicity for their idea.

My name is Mario and I am the founder of IdeaMensch. This started when I was a young employee in Advertising, frustrated by our sheer inability to actually bring ideas to life. So I started picking the brains of people who I saw succeeding in making their ideas happen. Many of them were entrepreneurs. At some point, one of them suggested I publish the notes I took. I did. From there, I quickly learned that there wasn’t an easy platform for every-day entrepreneurs to publish their stories and get some easy publicity for their idea. The insights gained from every-day mainstreet entrepreneurs were just as, or maybe more valuable than what you’d learn from some billionaire tech entrepreneur.

A great way to highlight your story and expertise.

I remember personally submitting my interview to IdeaMensch years ago and the value I got out of it as a growing entrepreneur. Since then, we have connected many to the community to do interviews. The team at IdeaMensch is professional and great to work with. The interviews not only show up when people search your name on Google, but are a great way to highlight your story and expertise to inspire others.

Sure to shine the light on many rich stories that will stir us.

I’m inspired any time someone takes a stand and starts bringing their idea to life. IdeaMensch, not only is one of those ideas, but also is sure to shine the light on many rich stories that will stir us, motivate us and ultimately inspire thousands to get started working on their own ideas.

Our purpose is to inspire action through the curation of our daily interviews, content, and community. Real entrepreneurs provide all of our content through our daily interviews. Here is how to do an interview.

We believe that:

Bringing ideas to life is good for humanity.

The best ideas can come from anywhere.

Win/win/win situations make the world go round.

Entrepreneurial sustainability beats short-term profits.

Shipping an idea is more important than perfecting it.

To keep IdeaMensch feasible and sustainable, we allow people who submit interviews to expedite their publish date. Every day, we get dozens of interviews but only post a few. So there tends to be a wait for interviews to go live. If you want to skip the line, it's $30 for entrepreneurs and $50 for people submitting on behalf of others. It's a model that has served us and our supporters for many years.

We don't publish detailed traffic data, but have served (tens of) millions of impressions over the past decade. This should give you a rough idea of our on-site visitor numbers.

In addition, IdeaMensch is broadly syndicated across the Internet so your interviews aren't just read here. For example, 32,000+ people subscribe to our interviews on Flipboard.

Most of our interviews end up showing up pretty high up on the first page of Google if you search for the name of the interviewee. We have been publishing solid content for a decade, which probably helps our standing with search engines.